ECVPH

ECVPH

The Centre of Veterinary Public Health (Institute of Food Hygiene & Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health), Veterinary Faculty, University of Leipzig offers the possibility with the following cluster for residents to complete the compulsory part of the ECVPH residency programme in both subspecialities.

Part II

Subspeciality Population Medicine (compulsory) - Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health

Time(weeks)

ECTS points

Cluster B Risk management

Concepts, principles and applications of diesease control programmes as well as of good hygiene practices, sanitation and desinfection procedures

2

3

Cluster C Monitoring, surveillance and quality management

Further aetiology, epidemiology, diagnostics and control of infectious and non-infectious diseases of livestock populations, either monofactorial or multifactorial in nature (specifically including zoonoses, originating from livestock populations and those infections which can be raw animal product and/or food-borne)

4

5

Topics in detail

Control of epidemic diseases:

Training in concepts of controlling epidemic diseases

Diagnostic procedures of selected epidemic diseases

Animal Hygiene:

Training in biosecurity issues and disinfection

Concepts of animal welfare and animal husbandry

Epidemiology/Biometry:

Basic concepts in outbreak investigations and statistics, i.e. learning the key features and elements of epidemics, different scaling of measurement, sample size calculation and interpretation of test characteristics

Laboratory and field investigations of vector-borne pathogens - study objects are wild rodents, ticks, mosquitoes and various pathogens thatb are associated with them (Leptospira spp., Rickettsia spp., Babesia spp., Anaplasma phagocytophilum etc.) - comparison of prevalence data in the investigated host species are used to describe natural transmission cycles and potential reservoir hosts.

Subspeciality Food Science (compulsory) - Institute of Food Hygiene

Time(weeks)

ECTS points

Cluster A Food Hygiene and foodborne hazards

Examination, diagnostics and monitoring of microbial contamination of food including microbial ecology of foodborne pathogens and spoilage microorganisms

2

3

Cluster B Food control and surveillance, incl. Risk analysis

Sound knowledge of EU and national legislation regarding consumer protection and animal welfare and their implications on the industry

2

3

Outbreak investigation and molecular epidemiology (in cooperation with the Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health)